As it closely follows the changing battlefield in Ukraine, Israel will soon need to take a definitive stance on the Russian invasion. As the war and its scenes of devastation drag on in Ukraine, ​Israel has become a magnet for foreign security officials from dozens of countries. “This has become …

“War is too serious a matter to be left to the soldiers,” said the French First World War prime minister Georges Clemenceau. But the evidence of most wars in history is that they are also too serious to be left to the politicians. This failing is not yet evident in …

Russia’s foreign ministry said on Monday that it had declared 40 German diplomatic staff “personae non gratae” in a retaliatory move after Berlin expelled the same number of Russian diplomats, Reuters reported. In a statement, Russia’s foreign ministry said it had taken the decision after Germany on April 4 declared …